Let us examine and devise some effective troubleshooting stores for the Ansible error conflicting action statements with the support of our Server Management Support Services at Bobcares.

Error: Conflicting Action Statement in Ansible

Error message:

ERROR! conflicting action statements

The error appears to have been in ‘/path/to/’: line x, column y, but may be present elsewhere in the file on the basis of the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be here:

tasks:
-name: debugging module
^ here

Troubleshooting tips:

• Firstly we have to check to see that the YAML indent is correct. This could also trigger the ansible error conflicting action statements. We need to start over with a fresh set of hosts and a fresh work list.
• YAML files are extremely space sensitive to specify document structure, YAML employs spaces and indentations. Check for spelling and spacing mistakes.
• If the material includes many tasks, e.g. If we have two jobs in one, separate them and double check.
• In the provided tasks, a missing dash can also be the reason for causing the ansible error conflicting action statements. We have to check for the missing dash or hyphen.
• When we use the ‘FQDN’  for the modules, we may get problems, which deny the command we found on this. When we point to the basic name, it works.
• We must investigate any strange ansible installations. Please remove any current ansible installations and reinstall ansible. The output of “ansible-doc -l” should provide a large list of modules.
• If everything else fails, we have to update the ansible version to remove the conflicting action statements issue.
• Another way to cure the problem is to remove the library spec from my.ansible.cfg file. This setup should work on the error and resolve it.

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Conclusion

To conclude we have now gone through the triggers and the troubleshoots for ansible error conflicting action statements with the support of our Server Management support services at Bobcares.